EAPIL blog

The fourth issue of 2025 of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale (RDIPP) is out. In addition to recent case law and other materials, it features two contributions. Christian Kohler, Loi de police ou ordre public? Interrogations critiques soulevees par l’arret C-86/23 Huk Coburg de la Cour de justice de l’Union europeenne (Overriding Mandatory Provisions […]

The EAPIL Working Group on Parallel Proceedings has issued a position paper to answer the public consultation of the Hague Conference on Private International Law on the HCCH Draft text of a future convention on parallel proceedings and related actions. The position paper was drafted by Gilles Cuniberti, Aleksandrs Fillers, Bettina Heiderhoff, Jeremy Heymann, Vesna Lazic, […]

This post presents an interview of Lilla Garayová, Professor of Children’s Rights at Pan-European University, on private international law issues arising from Slovakia’s 2025 constitutional reform, highlighting implications also for other EU Member States and in relation to the proposed EU Regulation on Parenthood. The interview was conducted by Marco Pasqua (PhD, Catholic University of […]

On 12 January 2026, the European Law Institute (ELI)’s Report on Enhancing Child Protection: Private International Law on Filiation and the European Commission’s Proposal COM/2022/695 final has been formally approved by ELI Fellows. The Report was prepared by a team consisting of Claire Fenton-Glynn, Cristina Gonzales Beilfuss, Fabienne Jault-Seseke, Martina Melcher, Sharon Shakargy, Patrick Wautelet and […]

In March 2026, the European Association of Private International Law had the distinct honour of joining as an observer, for the first time, the Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). The invitation to participate in the HCCH’s principal governing body was a recognition of EAPIL’s […]

On January 15, 2026, the Court of Justice rendered its judgment in Wunner, C-77/24, addressing the application of the Rome II Regulation (864/2007) to the personal liability of company directors in the context of unlawful online gambling. The judgment clarifies the scope of the company law exception in Article 1(2)(d) of the Rome II Regulation […]

The second issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2026 was published on 1 March. The following abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. C. Budzikiewicz/H.-P. Mansel/K. Thorn/R. Wagner, Europäisches Kollisionsrecht 2025: Im Windschatten der Weltpolitik (German) This article provides an overview of developments in Brussels in the […]

The 11th Journal of Private International Law Conference will take place in Zurich from 1-3 April 2027. The conference organizers, Tanja Domej and Christiane von Bary, as well as the editors of the Journal, Jonathan Harris and Paul Beaumont, have provided the following call for papers inviting submissions of proposals for the conference. Following the […]

A collection of essays under the titled Who’s Afraid of Punitive Damages? has recently been published by Mohr Siebeck, edited by Tobias Lutzi (University of Augsburg). The book can be freely accessed here. It is the first of two volumes resulting from the Project Zeitenwende beim Strafschadensersatz? / A Turning Point for Punitive Damages?, aimed […]

The Law Quarterly Review has published an interesting article by Ardavan Arzandeh (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore) on Validation Principle and the Choice-of-Law Question. The article discusses the elements of the validation principle, its application in cases such as Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi AS v OOO Insurance Company Chubb [2020] UKSC 38 to choice-of-law […]

The third bi-annual conference of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18-20 June 2026. The conference will present current developments in Private International Law. The program is available on the conference’s website (see here). Early bird registration closes in two weeks, on 15 March 2026. You […]

This month starts with the publication, on Thursday 5 March, of Advocate General R. Norkus’s opinion in case C-716/24, Ponner, on the interpretation of the EAPO Regulation (Regulation 655/2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure), upon request fom the Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main (Germany). A hearing took place last December – see here. N. Jääskinen is […]

The EAPIL Winter School was established in 2024. The three editions organised so far attracted, globally, more than 80 participants, mostly PhD students, young academics and professionals, coming from 16 countries. The courses, held at the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures at the University of Insubria, in Como, have resulted in collective volumes that […]

Philippine Blajan, who is a professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin, has published La combinaison des autonomies en droit international privé des contrats. Étude des interactions entre le choix de juridiction et le choix de loi (The Combination of Party Autonomies in the Private International Law of Contracts. A study of the interactions between […]

On 18 February 2026, a Corrigendum to Regulation (EU) 2020/1784 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2020 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Corrigendum […]

On 24 February 2026, the Council of the European Union approved the position of the European Parliament at first reading (reported on this blog) on the proposal for a directive amending, among other legislative measures, Directive (EU) 2024/1760 on corporate sustainability due diligence (CSDDD). The directive has thereby been formally adopted (the final text can […]

The author of this post is Katja Karjalainen, who is a professor at University of Lapland, Finland. In its decision of 4 December 2025 (KKO:2025:102), the Finnish Supreme Court clarified that a parental agreement on intended habitual residence is irrelevant under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention (the 1980 Hague Convention) and that a child […]

Advocate General Spielmann’s opinion in case C-876/24, Vueling Airlines (Juridiction compétente en cas de contrat en ligne de transport aérien national) will be published on Thursday 26th. The Court of First Instance No 1, Fuenlabrada, Spain, has referred the following questions to the Court of Justice: First. Must Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2027/97 [of […]

On 25 February 2026, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan will host a seminar in English titled Recognition of U.S. Securities Class Actions in Europe: Compatibility of Opt-Out Claims with the Right to a Fair Trial. The main speaker will be Meltem Ece Oba (Koç University, Istanbul), while Marco Lamandini (University of […]

The latest issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Volume 74, Issue 4) features one article on private international law. Adeline Chong, ‘Salami-Slicing’ and Issue Estoppel: Foreign Decisions on the Governing Law, 875-903 Whether an issue estoppel arises over foreign decisions on the governing law of the claim has not been directly considered by an English […]